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Word: eighth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been trying to get a job here and there. Nobody take me. I got this jail record. I knows how they feel. No experience. Eighth grade in school. Hiring me is a gamble. I shy away from working just like everybody else. I like to run at nights. But I like this job. Man, I'm looking good. I get up in the mornin' and I see this face and there's a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Hiring the Hard Core | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...more interesting guessing game revolves around the ECAC standings. If the Tournament Committee follows recent practice and seeds teams on the basis of won-lost percentages, then Cornell will be first and Princeton eighth, but the pairings of the six teams in between are still very uncertain...

Author: By Robert P. Marshall jr., | Title: Crimson Six Journeys to Ithaca: Contest to Decide Ivy Hockey Title | 2/28/1968 | See Source »

...appropriate to the later symphonies, from the Fifth on, with their careening metaphysics, thorny textures and dramatic contradictions. Bernstein explains that Mahler is "roughhewn and epicene, subtle and blatant, refined, raw, objective, maudlin, brash, shy, grandiose, self-annihilating, confident, insecure." Each symphony is also being released separately, and the Eighth, in particular, is not to be missed, as Bernstein masses his musical forces, in this case, the London Symphony Orchestra, for an impassioned yes to the whole cosmos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 23, 1968 | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

STRIKES Still in the Trenches The 26-union strike against the nation's copper producers-longest walkout in U.S. history against virtually an entire industry-last week dragged into its eighth month. Though the unions and major copper companies remain as far apart as ever, a few small cracks have appeared in the costly deadlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strikes: Still in the Trenches | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...eighth" member of the cast, Jeremy Levin, hovers in the background. He is credited with writing, directing, producing, and co-composing (with Forster) the show. If he is the source of most of The Proposition's original concepts, he should be congratulated. He should also take Miss Heine man's tests...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: The Proposition | 2/20/1968 | See Source »

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